Culinary masher and strainer.



Wu. Patented Oct. I6, :900. IR. F. HAYES.

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(Application filed Jan. 2, 1900.)

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S'rnrns RICHARD F. HAYES, OF NElV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE A. GRIFFIN, OF SAME PLACE.

CULINARY MASHER AND STRAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,969, dated October 16, 1900.

Application filed January 2, 1900. Serial No. 107. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD F. HAYES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Device for Mashing and Clarifying Food, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

()ne object of my invention is to provide a simple and economic device capable of being attached to any suitable support and by means of which food may be expeditiously mashed and through the medium of which also such liquid food as soups may be clarified.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the device that the sieves through which the material is to be pressed may be expeditiously and conveniently changed to suit the different conditions of material to be treated and whereby the device may be operated with the use of but one hand.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken at right angles to the section shown in Fig. 2 and on the line 3 30f Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken substantially on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View, partially in section, illustrating the manner in which the front of the base is pivotally connected with the body of the base.

- The frame of the device consists of two main sections--a hopperA and a base B. The hopper A has at its bottom edge a thickened edge portion or rim 10, provided at its lower edges and at opposite sides with outwardly and thence inwardly turned flanges 11, constituting slideways. The base B has a back 13 of semicircular form. This back is attached to the rim of the hopper A by forming it integral therewith or by any other means desired. The base B has a removable front 15, which is of the same shape as the back 13.

The device is attached to any desired sup port, usually by forming oppositely-inclined grooved ribs 16 upon the back 13 of the base, adapted to receive a bracket 17, attached toa support, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The front section 15 of the base is preferably at tached thereto by forming openings 18 in the rim 10, at the front thereof, and passing the horizontal members of angular hangers 19 through the said openings from within the base, as shown particularly in Fig. 5. The inner face of the removable front section 15 of the base is provided with a marginal groove 20, corresponding in shape and in position to a groove 14 in the back 13 of the base 13, as shown in Fig. 2. The front and back of the base are fastened together through the me dium of a rod 22, which is pivoted to the back 13 of the base, and its forward end, which is threaded, is passed between lugs 23,projected downward from the removable front 15 of the base. The threaded end of the rod 22is provided with a nut 24 to fasten the rod. This pivoted rod 22 is adapted to hold a screen or a sieve 0 between the front and back of the base, the side edges of which screen or sieve enter the grooves 14 and in the front and back of the base, while at the top of the sieve flanges 21 are formed, which enter the slide- Ways formed by the flanges of the rim 10. This screen consists of a single strip of metal bent to suitable shape, and it is evident that when the front 15 of the base is removed the screen 0 may be changed as may be required by the character of the article to be treated.

The food or other article to be treated is forced through the screen through the me dium of a beater or agitator, consisting of curved blades 25, radiating from and secured to a hub 26, which hub is provided with a tapering polygonal bore adapted to receive the tapering polygonal section of a shaft 27, as shown in Fig. 2, the ends 28 of which shaft are journaled in the front and the back of the base and are round, and at the front portion of the shaft 27 a suitable handle 29 is usually attached. Thusit willbe observed that when the device is in position on a support and material has been fed into the hopper-body A by turning the shaft 27 the agitator will cause the material to be forced through the interstices or apertures in the screen 0, any material not capable of passing through said openings being retained Within the device. The wings or arms 25 of the beater operate quite close to the inner face of the screen 0.

It is evident that the polygonal tapering bore in the hub of the agitator and the corresponding section of the shaft 27 obviate the necessity of lock-nuts or washers, and yet the agitator will be held firmly in position on the shaft. It is furthermore evident that parts of the device may be readily separated and conveniently cleaned, which feature is of great importance in connection with an article of the character described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An apparatus for mashing and straining food, comprising a feed-hopper, a body joined thereto and comprising a back joined rigidly to the feed-hopper and a front removably connected thereto, the front and back having grooves therein, outwardly and inwardly turned flanges attached to opposite edges of the feed-hopper, a sieve with flanges at its ends engaged with the side flanges of the feedhopper, the side edges of the sieve being fitted inthe grooves of the front and back sections of the body, a tie-rod extending between the front and back sections of the body, to hold the sieve and front section in place, and a beater mounted in the body and working against the sieve.

2. A vegetable mashing and straining device, comprising a hopper having an enlargement or rim at its bottom portion, a body comprising front and back sections, the back section being rigidly joined to the rim of the hopper and the front section being removably engaged therewith, a sieve having its ends en'- gaged with the rim of the hopper and having its side edges engaged with the front and back of the body, a tie-rod extending between the front and back of the body, and a beater mounted in the body and working with the sieve.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD F. HAYES.

Witnesses:

EDWARD D. BOTTSFORD, HARRY MANSFIELD. 

